Character Analysis Randy Pausch

Through thick and thin bestfriends are always there for eachother. In the novel The Contender Alfred Brooks struggles to become a contender and reunite with his best friend James. Alfred is a high school dropout and has a job at a grocery store that’s going nowhere. James, his best friend is also a high school dropout but he is messing with the wrong crew. Throughout the story, Alfred begins to train at Donatelli’s gym to become a boxer. Later in the story James, who has been doing drugs, goes to rob the Epstein's store , where Alfred works, and almost gets caught. At the end of the story Alfred finds James in a cave with a cut arm that was caused by the burglary. James asks Alfred for a fix but Alfred, the contender, takes him to the hospital

The award-winning author, Luis Alberto Urrea, creator of The Hummingbird's Daughter, Into the Beautiful North, and The Devil's Highway, describes The Devil’s Highway which occurred in May of 2001, one of many that impacted the desert on undocumented immigrants. which is a desert located beyond Sonora, Mexico. It is a desert which few turn to in able to cross over. A group of illegal Mexican were left for dead after attempting to cross; they were left stranded after traveling for days in the wrong direction, through mountains, desert and only a small amount of water along with a few personal items. The Devil’s Highway name was set out to one’s belief “bad medicine” (5). Even though the desert is an obstacle itself, there are still other physical

We all change whether good or bad. It is in us to make decisions that shape the way we act towards everyday occurrences. In this cases Chris Theodorakis changed immensely. Chris went from a unconfident recluse to an outgoing professor. This just shows how fast you can change to become a better person for yourself.

Daniel from Daniel's story won’t give up because he is hopeful, strong, and most of all a risk-taker. Daniel needs these traits to survive his terrible journey that keeps getting worse. The first reason that he won’t give up is because he is hopeful. One example of him being hopeful was when he couldn’t go to public pools or restarunts he remanied strong and hoped it that it would end.

You would think a man dying of cancer would not be so happy and willing to spend the last few months of his life giving a lecture. But, Randy Pausch, who has 10 tumors in his liver, does not want people to pity him for having cancer. Rather, he wants to teach people how to follow their childhood dreams. Looking at the seven elements of communication we see how he is so effective in his last lecture.

Many people seem to think that successful people possess extraordinary qualities that set them apart from the rest. It is little known that their “[…] success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky-but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all" (285) just normal human beings who are given extra tools to work with. These tools are the components to success. Three of these components are putting in ten thousand hours of practice, having negotiation and communication skills, and being in the right place at the right time. With these components, an extraordinary person is born out of an

Have you been ever asked the question if you were stranded on a island what or who would you bring? What did you say? I have been asked the question, and I would bring Les Stroud from the show survivorman with me. There are many reasons he would be a amazing person to be stranded with. These include that he's a survival expert, knows first aid, and he would be able to keep me company. Les is someone that would actually know how to survive unlike me. He is someone who knows what needs to be done when trying to survive.

Gia is the main character, She has a lot of fears. Her biggest fear was to lose all of her friends. Gia is scared to lose them because she is lying to them because she got a fake boyfriend to take to prom. The real boyfriend actually broke up with her in the parking lot of the prom. All of her friends won't believe her that's why she is scared to bring her fake boyfriend. Gia really loves her friends and she wants them to believe her but it was too hard. Gia will do anything to make her friends believe her, even bringing a fake date to prom.

In Kevin Hart’s stand-up comedy show titled “Let Me Explain – Witness the Rise of A Legend,” Kevin Hart goes on a comedic rant about the changes he went thru doing his marriage and before, during and after his divorce that led him to become the person he is today. One comedy bit that stood out to me the most was entitled “Help Me Nigga.” Kevin begins this bit by stating that cheating was the reason why his marriage failed, but immediately after stating this turns around and states that is was actually “lying about cheating” that was the reason why his marriage didn’t last. He proceeds to give examples of the many times that he lied about when he was cheating – even bringing his best friend into the web of lies and somehow always getting

Two unexpected paths collide as 13-year-old Stewart and his dad move in with 14-year-old Ashley and her mom. Stewart is a quirky, socially awkward, but academically gifted intellectual, whereas Ashley deems to be fashionably smart and a popular girl who swerves the attention from all the cute guys and envious girls at her school. After their once normal lives encounter unexpected plot twists, one being Stewart’s mother dying and the other one being Ashley’s dad coming out as gay, the romantic relationship between their single parents forces them to live under the same roof.

In the period of 1942-1945 eight jewish people had gone into hiding due to the Holocaust. There was nearly 11 million people that died during the holocaust, and 6 million of them were jews. But the eight people struggling to survive in the most brutal conditions. During the two year period the characters moods change and relationships change throughout the unsparing period.

Memory, symbol, and pattern are tools that professors use to analyze literature and draw connections—furthering their understanding of what they are reading. An awareness of patterns makes it easier to read more complicated literature because books fall into similar patterns and become more recognizable and easier to breakdown. If the reader determines the patterns, routines, and archetypes at work in the background of the story, then the complicated plot becomes a little simpler to understand. A great example of this is the play Into the Woods. Into the Woods is a crazy mismatch of multiple fairy tales—the first half of the play is all of the positive aspects of these fairy tales, and the second half of the play is doomsday

The term of events of the movie August Osage County blew me away. Personally, I think Meryl Streep is a brilliant actress and the way she takes on a character amazes me. Seeing this film for the first time in class just reminded me of how great she is on the big screen. Not only was this movie dark and twisted but so was her family. She played a sick mother suffering from Oral Cancer and a heavy drug addiction, Violet Weston.

It might seem like “The Other Side” and “Wonder” are very different kinds of stories. But if you look deeper into the story you will find out that they have the same theme. They both teach us that just because you are different you can still be friends. The main character in “whonder” is august but his nickname is Auggie. The main characters in “The Other Side” is clover and

Although I am only a “Freshy” at the high school I walk around like I own the high school. Through all of junior high years I was always a kid to look up to, I am that kid that is athletic, but is still friends with some band geeks. I have intriguing style and exceptional foot apparel, whenever I’m in the hallways, I always see eyes looking down at my feet. Transitioning over to a classroom setting, I am a hard worker, once I get shouted at a couple times, but mostly I’m a neat character. I ask a plethora of questions, I’m always so confused in class that's the reason I ask, and just out of common courtesy, I’m asking questions to test your sharpness on knowing your instructions. I firmly believe that comedic teachers are amazing,